Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (MS)

Puttur, Jun 17: Two cars collided head-on at Shekamale near Kumbra on the Mani-Mysuru national highway on the evening of Sunday, June 16, killing two people on the spot.

The deceased are identified as Lokesh (48) and Ravindra B N (52), both natives of Kushalnagar traveling in an Alto car. The occupants of the Bolero car sustained minor injuries and have been admitted to a private hospital in Puttur.

The Alto car was traveling from Mangaluru to Tygathoor in Kodagu. It hit a scooter rider near Shekamale, causing the rider minor injuries. The car then collided with the Bolero vehicle, which was traveling from Eshwaramangala to Puttur.

Ravindra, one of the deceased, was working as a tanker driver in Mangaluru and had rented a room there. He had come with his friend Lokesh to collect his belongings as he was vacating the room. According to eyewitnesses, Ravindra was driving the car at high speed and on the wrong side of the road from Kumbra.

The daughter of the deceased, Lokesh, had just joined the nursing profession a week ago in Sullia. He had spoken to her before starting the journey.

It is also reported that the Alto car had overtaken an auto-rickshaw at high speed in Kumbra. The same auto-rickshaw driver took both Lokesh and Ravindra to the hospital in Puttur, who had succumbed to their injuries on the spot.